Irwindale, CA – July 22: “We had some special young guests here at the Dragstrip on Thursday night,” said track PR guy Doug Stokes. SEMA (the Specialty Equipment Market Association) just weeks before had announced a first-ever SEMA Custom Car Camp for youngsters 10 to 13 years old. It was set for the week of July 18-22 at the association’s…

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Championship Short Track Racing and a Special Salute* to First Responders: San Gabriel Valley “Complex” Fire Irwindale, Calif. – – With fully two-thirds of the NASCAR Pick Your Part Late Model 2016 championship season already in the books; the top three drivers in the division are still only a single race win apart … 50 points (the precise points payout…

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With the same regular event ticket price schedule that the track opened with in 1999, Irwindale Speedway will put on a seven race night of oval racing that will see the track’s feature division racing not once, but twice on the fast half-mile oval that’s know far and wide as: “LA’s Half-Mile Superspeedway”. Adult tickets are still pegged at only…

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Irwindale, Calif. 05.05.16 – – “I’m very pleased to announce that Irwindale Event Center will shortly be releasing a full revised 2016 schedule which will feature additional NASCAR and NHRA competition nights, shows, attractions, and a number of special events that will run right through the end of the year,” said Event Center President/CEO, Jim Cohan. Already announced is that…

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Irwindale, Calif. – – The fastest race cars ever to turn laps at Irwindale Speedway, Davey Hamilton’s outrageous “King of the Wing” winged sprint cars will soon be “flying” again on the banked half-mile as this time as the: LucasOilRacing.TV King of the Wing – Sprint Car Shoot-Out “We’re very proud to have the Lucas name associated with this event,”…

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It’s been a long year for the Seidner’s Collision Centers Late Model division at Irwindale Speedway and the chase for the track championship will go right down to the wire on Saturday night, October 3, when the nineteenth race in the Late Model’s 2015 season pays off in double points giving the leaders chills and the contenders hope for a…

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FRI. SEPT. 4 & TWO RACES SAT. SEPT. 5 Plus!: SATURDAY NIGHT LOONYNESS: “NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION” SAT. SEPT 5 BACKGROUND: Saturday, July 18’s “unseasonable” rainout of that night’s racing sent the Irwindale track staff into a set of serious meetings aimed at getting that evening’s two lost Seidner’s Collision Centers Late Model races back into the schedule before NASCAR’s September…

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Labor Day Weekend “NIGHT of DESTRUCTION” + NASCAR “Double Header” (Irwindale, Calif., July 23, 2015) – – Last Saturday, July 18’s “unseasonable” rainout of that night’s racing sent the Irwindale track staff into a set of serious meetings aimed at getting that evening’s two lost Seidner’s Collision Centers Late Model races back into the schedule before NASCAR’s September 19 cut-off…